Cookie Notice
What algoscale.com stores on your device, who placed it, how long it stays, and how to refuse it.
Last updated 8 October 2026
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, so the site can recognise the same browser on a later page or a later visit. This notice also covers technologies that do much the same job by other means: local storage, tracking pixels and third-party scripts.
How we handle the personal data these technologies generate is described in our Privacy Policy.
Why we use them
We use cookies for four purposes:
- Strictly necessary — keeping the site secure and available. These cannot be switched off.
- Analytics — counting visits and seeing which pages are read, so we know what to write next.
- Functional — remembering a chat conversation so it can resume.
- Advertising — measuring which campaign brought a visitor, and building audiences on advertising platforms.
These cookies are set when you visit the site. You can refuse or remove them at any time using the controls described under Your choices.
The cookies this site sets
The table below was produced by loading algoscale.com in a browser on 8 October 2026 and recording what was actually stored. It is a snapshot: if we add or remove a tool, the table changes.
| Cookie | Set by | Category | Lifetime | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | 13 months | Distinguishes one visitor from another so visits can be counted. |
_ga_1TPH5F1JT6 | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | 13 months | Holds the session state for this site’s Analytics property. |
_gcl_au | Google Ads / AdSense | Advertising | 3 months | Records which ad brought a visitor, so a later enquiry can be attributed to it. |
_clck | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | 12 months | Keeps a Clarity identifier for the browser across visits. |
_clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | 1 day | Joins several page views into one recorded session. |
__hstc | HubSpot | Analytics | 6 months | The main HubSpot tracking cookie: first visit, last visit, current visit. |
__hssc | HubSpot | Analytics | 30 minutes | Tracks sessions, and decides when to increment the session count. |
__hssrc | HubSpot | Analytics | Session | Marks whether the visitor restarted the browser. |
hubspotutk | HubSpot | Analytics | 6 months | Identifies a visitor so a form submission can be tied to earlier page views. |
messagesUtk | HubSpot chat | Functional | 6 months | Identifies a person who has used the chat widget, so a conversation can resume. |
cf_clearance | Cloudflare | Strictly necessary | 12 months | Records that a browser passed Cloudflare’s security check. |
Only cf_clearance is strictly necessary. Every other cookie in the table is analytics, advertising or chat, and the site works without it.
Third parties that receive data
Loading our pages causes your browser to contact the services below. Each can see your IP address, the page you are on, and whatever its own cookie or script records. Each handles that data under its own terms, which we do not control beyond the settings available to us.
| Service | Domains contacted |
|---|---|
| Google (Analytics, Ads, Tag Manager, Fonts, Maps) | googletagmanager.com, analytics.google.com, doubleclick.net, fonts.googleapis.com, maps.googleapis.com |
| HubSpot (CRM, forms, chat) | hubspot.com, hsforms.net, hs-analytics.net, usemessages.com |
| Microsoft Clarity (session analytics) | clarity.ms, c.bing.com |
| LinkedIn (advertising) | px.ads.linkedin.com, snap.licdn.com |
| LiveChat | livechatinc.com |
| Cloudflare (delivery and security) | static.cloudflareinsights.com |
| YouTube (embedded video) | img.youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com |
| Gravatar (author images) | gravatar.com |
Some of these providers are based outside your country, so using this site may involve an international transfer of personal data. Our Privacy Policy covers how those transfers are handled.
Your choices
You can control cookies from your browser at any time:
- block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings, under Privacy. Blocking everything will stop the chat widget working and may affect forms; the rest of the site will still work;
- opt out of Google Analytics with Google’s browser add-on;
- turn on “Do Not Track” or a similar signal in your browser, and use tracking protection or an ad blocker.
Changes and contact
We update this notice when the tools on the site change. The date at the top is the date of the last change.
Questions about this notice: askus@algoscale.com.